Michel Campeau
in Carleton-sur-Mer
EXHIBIT
Capital Camera Exchange Inc. – Anonymous Amateur and Professional Photographers (2015-2018)
Michel Campeau, Montreal, Québec | michelcampeauphotographies.com
This collection is intended as an encyclopedic eulogy of the interactions and contortions of bodies deriving from the gestures and rituals surrounding the snapshots of the anonymous amateur, gathered together here in a collection that depicts rituals that only yesterday my parents’ generation considered part of the highlights of collective living.
Safeguarding orphaned records and interrogating the memorial world of vernacular images, the collection extends the autobiographical consistency of my earlier output and recalls Autoportrait à la table lumineuse (Self-Portrait at the Light-Table, 1984) in renewing the examination and slide projection tools, the cherished remainders and leftovers from that historical paraphernalia replaced by digital cameras. Unquestionably, the magical power of the memory screen acts serves my vulnerabilities like so many handrails.
Michel Campeau
EXHIBIT AT RENCONTRES
Capital Camera Exchange Inc. – Anonymous Amateur and Professional Photographers (2015-2018)
The works of Michel Campeau stretch across the last five decades of contemporary photography. They’ve recently been presented at the exhibit Michel Campeau: Life Before Digital (McCord Museum, Montreal, 2018) and the exhibit Qu’est-ce que la photographie ? (What Is Photography?, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2016). Michel Campeau has been the subject of a number of publications, including Rudolph Edse: Une autobiographie involontaire / An Unintentional Autobiography, a copublication of Éditions Loco in Paris and the McCord Museum in Montreal, and The Donkey That Became a Zebra: Histoires de chambre noire, published in 2019 by Éditions Loco in Paris and MCÉ in Montreal. In 2009 he received the Jean-Paul-Riopelle Career Grant from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.
Michel Campeau is represented by Galerie Simon Blais in Montreal and by Galerie Éric Dupont in Paris.
